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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fortification |
| Synonyms: | barrier, bluff, cliff, defense, enclosure, fence, slope, stockade |
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| Main Entry: | barrier |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstruction |
| Synonyms: | bar, barricade, blank wall, blockade, bound, boundary, confines, curtain, ditch, enclosure, fence, fortification, gully, hurdle, impediment, limit, moat, obstacle, pale, palisade, railing, rampart, roadblock, stop, trench, wall |
| Antonyms: | opening |
| Main Entry: | defense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | armament; protection system |
| Synonyms: | aegis, armor, arms, barricade, bastille, bastion, bulwark, buttress, citadel, cover, deterrence, dike, embankment, fastness, fence, fort, fortification, fortress, garrison, guard, immunity, munitions, palisade, parapet, position, protection, rampart, redoubt, resistance, safeguard, security, shelter, shield, stockade, stronghold, trench, wall, ward, warfare, weaponry, weapons |
| Antonyms: | desertion, flight, surrender |
| Main Entry: | fence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | barrier used to enclose a piece of land |
| Synonyms: | Cyclone, backstop, balustrade, bar, barbed wire, barricade, block, boards, chains, defense, dike, guard, hedge, net, paling, palisade, pickets, posts, rail, railing, rampart, roadblock, shield, stakes, stockade, stop, wall |
| Main Entry: | mountain |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | very large hill |
| Synonyms: | abundance, alp, bank, bluff, butte, cliff, crag, dome, drift, elevation, eminence, glob, heap, height, hump, mass, mesa, mound, mount, palisade, peak, pike, pile, precipice, pyramid, range, ridge, shock, sierra, stack, ton, tor, volcano |
| Antonyms: | crevasse, valley |
| Main Entry: | picket |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | post of structure |
| Synonyms: | pale, paling, palisade, panel, peg, pillar, rail, stake, stanchion, upright |
| Main Entry: | post |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upright support |
| Synonyms: | column, doorpost, leg, mast, newel, pale, palisade, panel, pedestal, picket, pile, pillar, pole, prop, rail, shaft, stake, standard, stilt, stock, stud |
| Main Entry: | wall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstruction, divider |
| Synonyms: | bank, bar, barricade, barrier, block, blockade, bulwark, curb, dam, embankment, enclosure, facade, fence, fortification, hindrance, hurdle, impediment, levee, limitation, palisade, panel, paneling, parapet, partition, rampart, restriction, retainer, roadblock, screen, side, stockade, stop, surface |
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| Main Entry: | defense |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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alleged, apagogic, apologetic, armed, armed at all points, armed cap, casemated, castellated, defended, defending, defensive, gas, iron, loopholed, machicolated, magnum, mural, panoplied, proof against, pump, slide, to the teeth
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